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A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
Heavy Medal
by Steven Engelfried
January 14, 2017 by Joyce Valenza
Check out Toontastic 3D, a wonderful, free, open-ended digital storytelling app just launched by Google Education for tablet, phone and Chromebook. You may be familiar with Toontastic launched in 2011 or Toontastic Jr. Now, with the help of Google, the platform is impressively redesigned for Android, iPad and iPhone. The new app allows students to […]
January 6, 2016 by Joyce Valenza
Meet CORA, the Community of Online Research Assignments. My guess is, she’ll become a welcome new friend The open access, collaborative portal facilitates the sharing and adapting of research assignments for faculty and librarians. While the primary audience is undergraduate and graduate educators, CORA offers a wealth of reliable and reproducible projects–instruction, handouts, scaffolds, rubrics […]
December 12, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
I just discovered Orange Slice, a Google Add-on that offers both teacher and student rubrics. A handy productivity tool, Orange Slice plays nice with Google Classroom and makes it super easy to evaluate student work in Docs. The Orange Slide Teacher Rubric allows teachers to add rubrics to students’ assignments for grading. The Orange Slide […]
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November 1, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
A few years back, in a powerful TEDx talk, Heidi Hayes Jacobs suggested, I think every student should design an app. I can’t think of a more practical, more challenging way to see if students could solve a specific problem, get it out there and make a difference to help people. Or don’t. Instead, […]
February 17, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Looking for an easy way to capture and manage student work and to encourage learners to reflect on their learning? I think it’s here. The developers of the very popular Shadow PuppetEdu recently released Seesaw, a free iPad/iPhone app that facilitates portfolio building. Designed for independent use by students ages 5 and up, Seesaw allows […]
February 5, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Charlotte’s Web – HORROR STYLE from James Kennedy on Vimeo. The 4th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival may coming to a city near you. You may want to get tickets and join the fun live at free, gala screening event. James Kennedy, its charming organizer, master of ceremonies, and author of The Order of Odd-Fish, […]
November 30, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Sometimes I wonder what my girlfriends and I would be like today if more models like the super-awesome Sylvia were around when we were kids. I kinda want every kid to meet her. I first heard of Sylvia from my friend Gary Stager who often shares her story and segments from Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show […]
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